THIRD MYSTERY FIRE AT PHYSICS SCHOOL
(Rec. 9 a.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. The fire in the laboratories of the physics school at the Melbourne University this week was the third mystery fire at the university in a very short time, said Mr W; J. Ilutchipson (Liberal, Victoria), speaking in the House of Representatives. It was reported that the laboratories were the only ones in Australia undertaking defence research work, and it was possible to read into the fire something of an alarming nature. . .
The Minister of Defence (Mr J. J. Dedman) said that the work being done in the laboratories had no defence significance. The Melbourne experiments were fundamental research into nuclear energy in a general way. They would train people who, if Australia wanted later to develop atomic piles or some other form of atomic energy, would be available as men who knew something about the subject. The Government thought the experiments valuable, Mr Dedman added, and had financed them. There was no need, from a security viewpoint, to put a guard on the building. . •
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 October 1948, Page 4
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